“And because I believe this is true, I hope to see earnest, honest
young men go into politics. If they have strong convictions of what
is right, and force of character enough to hold to these convictions
against the many wrongful pressures and influences of political life,
they will achieve success of the best kind.
“To-day, more than ever before in its history, the country needs men of
this kind. Conditions have come into existence which must be changed.
From an experience of years in practical business, I say that the young
man now starts in commercial life heavily handicapped. In almost every
line of business, he must fight great accumulations of capital, that
usually either crush him or make a hireling of him. It has been said
that the very name of America is a synonym of opportunity. It was so
once, but my experience has taught me that this is entirely true no
longer.